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Rotten Creeds, Failed Gods


“A leader is found! Yet cautiously to myself I ask, a leader to where? Despair overthrown often turns us in mad directions.” Katharine Kressmann Taylor (Address unknown)
In Brother Grimm’s Little Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty), the twelve wise women invited to the birthday feast gift the baby princess with “everything in the world that one can wish for.” A magical intervention of similar magnitude would be necessary to create the kind of leader who can use with moderation and efficacy and for greater good the enormous powers of Sri Lanka’s executive presidency.
Our titanic presidency is a bad fit for mortals. The crown slips down covering the eyes, blinding the wearer. The mantle entangles the arms hampering efficient movement. Near divine powers are thus wielded by a mortal deprived of ordinary sight and ordinary efficacy by the weight of those very powers. How can anything but disaster ensue? ....

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I love libraries


Brannavan Gnanalingam says he would not be a writer if it were not for libraries.
OPINION: Every fortnight, my mum walks down to Naenae Library to read my columns. She has a chat to the librarians, who often pass on their views of my column for that week. It’s turned into a bit of a ritual for her.
I grew up around libraries. Or, more accurately, I grew up in libraries. I would spend hours in the Naenae Library initially, and then the War Memorial Library in Lower Hutt, reading and reading. I then learned I could take books home, which probably saved my mum a lot of time. She never complained about the time I’d spend in there. She never refused to take me, whenever I asked. We didn’t start off with any books in my house. We ended up with thousands. ....

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From Jaffna library to University – politics of identity


By Harim Peiris
A centre of Tamil learning in Jaffna was attacked and destroyed. No, not last week, but 40 years ago, in 1981, the iconic Jaffna Library, a seat of Tamil language, literature and learning was burnt to cinders by a mob of what then cabinet ministers Cyril Mathew et al were watching, perhaps not entirely as innocent bystanders, from the veranda of the old Jaffna Rest House termed as “an unfortunate rampage by a few drunk and off duty police officers”. Coming a full circle, four decades later, once again a seat of Tamil learning, this time namely the University of Jaffna, witnessed the destruction of its memorial to the dead. The police officers were again there, now on duty and very sober, as under cover of darkness, they guarded the backhoes which did the demolition. The contexts were different, the events eerily similar, while the rhetoric is strikingly the same. ....

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